SFB 478 "Geometrische Strukturen in der Mathematik"
| Monday, August 2, 2004 | ||
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| 9.00-9.30 | Registration, office no. 414 | |
| 9.30-10.30 | J. Lott | Towards a synthetic notion of Ricci curvature |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 11.00-12.00 | A. Petrunin | Gradient push and collapsing |
| 12.00-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-15.00 | U. Lang | Nagata dimension, Lipschitz extensions and embeddings |
| 15.00-15.45 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 15.45-16.45 | S. Buyalo | Nonembedding results in asymptotic geometry |
| Tuesday, August 3, 2004 | ||
| 9.30-10.30 | I. Belegradek | Classification of negatively pinched manifolds with amenable fundamental groups |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 11.00-12.00 | V. Kapovitch | Optimal pinching for negatively curved manifolds with nilpotent fundamental groups | 12.00-14.00 | Lunch | 14.00-14.45 | X. Rong | Positively curved 5-manifolds with local torus actions | 14.45-15.30 | Coffee / Tea | 15.30-16.15 | F. Wilhelm | A preliminary report on counter examples to the uniform pinching conjecture | 16.30-17.15 | V. Berestovskii | Some unpublished results and unsolved questions |
| Wednesday, August 4, 2004 | ||
| 9.30-10.30 | G. Wei | The covering spectrum of a compact length space |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 11.00-12.00 | U. Hamenstädt | Spectral convergence of manifold pairs |
| bicycle tour in the afternoon | ||
| Thursday, August 5, 2004 | ||
| 9.30-10.30 | T. Yamaguchi | Extremal points in Alexandrov spaces |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 11.00-12.00 | T. Shioya | Collapsing three-manifolds with a lower curvature bound |
| 12.00-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-14.45 | P. Ghanaat | Structure of bounded curvature collaps |
| 14.45-15.30 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 15.30-16.15 | B. Ammann | Small Dirac eigenvalues on manifolds with almost nonnegative scalar curvature |
| 16.30-17.15 | A. Balser | Existence of Polygons with prescribed Gauss maps in Euclidean buildings |
| Friday, August 6, 2004 | ||
| 9.30-10.30 | A. Lytchak | Curvature of almost convex subsets |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 11.00-12.00 | T. Foertsch | Rough curvature and its functional behavior with respect to glueings and hyperbolic products |
| 12.00-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-14.45 | K. Nagano | Fixed point sets of parabolic isometeries of CAT(0)-spaces |
| 14.45-15.30 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 15.30-16.00 | G. Guzhvina | Examples of manifolds with arbitrarily small diameter pinching, diam(M)2 |K| |
| 16.15-17.15 | S. Alexander | Curvature bounds and warped products |
| 18.30 | Dinner party | |